TIMERGARA: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Sirajul Haq has said that the credit goes to Rangers for conducting peaceful by-election in NA-246 Karachi.

Addressing party meetings in Darangal, Boota, Jabagai, Shahi and Gaudish areas on Thursday, he said that JI accepted the results of by-election with open heart. Both the PTI and JI played a friendly match in NA 246, he added.

Siraj said that JI encouraged the people of Karachi to stand against MQM. He said that their movement would make Karachi the city of lights.

Speaking on the occasion, JI candidate for PK-95 by election and its district emir Izaz ul Mulk Afkari said that they would again sweep the election in the constituency on May 7.

He said that JI was going to hold big rallies in the area on April 26 and May 3. He claimed that more than 2,000 supporters of ANP and other parties had joined JI during the last two weeks.

Meanwhile, ANP provincial general secretary Sardar Hussain Babak criticised JI for ignoring the people of Dir for the last two years. He claimed that the people would never vote for JJ again.

Addressing a big party meeting at the hujra of Haji Fazal Mabood on Thursday, the ANP leader said that JI and its ministers had been violating election rules in the constituency.

He said that people knew that JI could not bring any positive change in the country. As many as 100 people from Shalkandi village of PK-95 on this occasion announced to quit their parties and join ANP.

ANP candidate for the by-election Haji Bahadar Khan, former nazim Qazi Azizul Haq, Haji Inayatullah and Fakhr-i-Alam also spoke on the occasion.

Both the JI and ANP have accelerated their election campaign in PK-95 wherein the by-election is scheduled to be held on May 7. Not only local leaders of both the parties but provincial and central leaders were also running their campaigns in the constituency.

FAKE CURRENCY: The Chakdara police on Thursday recovered fake currency notes worth Rs 311,000 and claimed to have arrested five members of a group involved in exchange of fake currency throughout Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

DSP Hidayatullah Shah and Chakdara SHO Zahid Khan told journalists that a police team raided different places on a tip-off and recovered 62 fake currency notes of Rs5,000 denomination each.

They said that police got information that outsiders were busy in exchanging fake currency notes in different markets of Chakdara and its surroundings. The arrested persons were identified Jan Mohammad, Daud Khan, Saeedur Rehman and Shakirullah.

Published in Dawn, April 24th, 2015

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